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From Colson Whitehead’s “City Limited”, we see New York City not just a city in his sarcastic and humorous. New York is a city with eight million naked cities in it. Everyone has their own city, based on their memories and that memories create many different “New York Cities”. As one moves, he or she carries the memory and add up to another “city”, thus New York always expanded both physically and mentally. Other people’s New York are not our New York, we built our first brick in New York is based on our first experience in this city, gradually become our own New York. Moreover, since people come from different places, the New York itself also changes physically. However, people still see New York from the past, in their memories, and experience, no matter how New York changes. The old place is the proof that we were here, when the old “building fall, we topple”. That is why it is so important to remember our New York, because we never know when to say goodbye to them and they fall and never come back.New York is the best and it ruin other places, and it will always keep moving and changing, without us it still move on. And we also move on, not hold by the former New York.

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In “City Limits” by Colson Whitehead, Colson expresses his idea of New York City through out his writing. Starting by the first paragraph he writes he tells us that he was born in NYC therefore, he was ruined for anywhere else. By This he means  that like his born in NYC it already ruined the chance of him  liking any other place. For him the city is that  great that he knows for a fact theres no other place like his.

He also says New York is always changing into new things and new places but whats important  to you is how NYC is at the moment you first lay your eyes on it. That’s why you shouldn’t believe what no one tells you about the history of new York because they just telling you was THEIR New York City like not what your is. Even though NYC is always changing it would stay the same way to you but as new people come to NYC the new places would be  their different NYC. Colson Whitehead expresses his sorrow by telling us that when places change unexpectedly you don’t get to say goodbye to them because you don’t really know when is your last time sitting on that place. That’s why is very important to remember this places before they’re gone because they are   very   important to you and is part of what makes YOUR NYC so special.

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City Limits is a story told in Colson Whitehead’s point of view, the story focuses on New York City or “Your New York City” has he often refers to it by, and it is a story that really captivates the feeling of being a New Yorker in a sense. In City Limits the author Colson Whitehead begins the story by asking us the audience how we got to New York City, Colson Whitehead then proceeds to explain how and when is the reader able to be a New Yorker and according to him “you are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.” In a later part of the reading he starts to make comparisons of the past and the present such as “But look past the windows of the travel agency that replaced your pizza parlor.” Those two comparisons are meant to make the reader think and relate about an specific place that they know and loved but now is gone and also to point out that most people that live in New York City do that sort of thinking. After that comparison Colson Whitehead starts to tell the reader that the buildings and streets in New York city sometimes know more than the actual people living in them and that once those buildings are gone our history will go with them as well. With Colson’s description of a New Yorker is no wonder that towards the end of the reading he starts to say that once you are inside New York you will not want to live anywhere else.

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In Colson Whitehead’s opinionated essay City Limits he believes that once you have been to New York you are ruined for anywhere else. New York makes any other hometown “look really drab and tiny”. You start building your own New York with your first experience there. Everybody who has been to New York has there own perspective, how they see New York. He calls the first New York experience the “first brick” and that’s when you start building your own New York.

No matter what others tell him about New York, Whitehead says he is sticking with what her first saw and experienced. It does not matter what other people tell you about New York you will always see it how see it. Nothing can change Whitehead’s mind that the Met Life Building still says Pan Am. Anything someone tries to tell you about how New York used is to be is hokum. Your bricks then start to add up as you go along. As a New Yorker you will move to different places from time to time. All the different buildings you lived in can represent a time in your life. They hold memories that you may not remember about yourself. If buildings could talk they would remind you of your past and all the experiences you had at that time. Over time you will remember those places as you saw them. After a while they will change but they will always remember as you remember them. Whitehead thinks it is important that you remember them because one they will be gone and you won’t get the chance to say goodbye.